A new tool to ease kernel maintainer life

When you are involved in mainlining or maintaining some kernel code, a non negligible part of your time is spent checking patches or patchsets themselves . It is not the most interesting part but it is truly necessary to help merging in kernel code, or to make sure you don’t break anything, for example building with an incompatible configuration.

Aiaiai developed by Artem Bityutskiy is a tool to do most of this task for you! It uses other checking tools and scripts such as sparse, coccinelle and checkpatch.pl, and comes with its own set of tools and scripts. I don’t know what does “aiaiai” stands for, but in French it sounds like “Ouch Ouch Ouch”, the sound you could make if you forget to use this tool 😉

Author: Gregory Clement

Gregory is an embedded Linux, kernel and realtime engineer at Bootlin, which he joined in 2010. Since 2002, he has acquired vast on the field experience in porting and operating embedded Linux, in particular for industrial and transportation customers.
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